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Oracle to Wall Street skeptics:“We’re doing just fine, thank you”
Oracle continues to baffle its critics, thanks largely to a surge in its cloud computing business. Despite a late start in cloud computing, open-source competition and, most recently, allegations that it misrepresented cloud revenues, the company again beat Wall Street sales and earnings estimates in its fourth fiscal quarter. Not that Oracle isn’t facing the ...
ContainerX ships toolset billed as ‘vSphere for containers’
ContainerX Inc. today released its multi-tenant container platform in both paid and free versions. Billed as equivalent to VMware Inc.s’ vSphere for containers, the product is intended to do for containers what dynamic resource scheduling (DRS) did for virtual machines nearly a decade ago: make them scalable, manageable and elastic. ContainerX claims to be the world’s ...
Sapho brings Google Now-like notifications to enterprise apps
If you use Google Now, you’ll immediately understand what Sapho Inc. is up to. Google Now is the Android-based automated assistant that watches what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with and presents information it thinks may interest you. For example, it’ll tell you when it’s time to leave for your 10 AM appointment ...
Barefoot says its programmable chip will revolutionize networking
Barefoot Networks Inc. launched today from stealth with a networking chip technology that it boldly claims will revolutionize the computer industry. The company’s proprietary Tofino switch chip processes packets at 6.5 terabits per second, which is twice as fast as any other product on the market. More importantly, the chips are fully user-programmable using a language ...
IBM cloud boosted by SugarCRM, VMware endorsements
IBM’s cloud just got two more big endorsements. SugarCRM Inc. today announced that customers can deploy its namesake customer relationship management (CRM) platform across IBM’s global network of cloud-based data centers. That gives customers the option of deploying the application on everything from hosted private cloud environments to on-premise clouds to bare-metal cloud servers, the ...
Buying LinkedIn, Microsoft makes big bet on social data. Too big?
In buying LinkedIn Corp. today for a stunning $26.2 billion, Microsoft is making an unprecedented bet that social data can supercharge its Office and cloud businesses. The central question: Is it too big a bet on an asset of uncertain value that depends on kind of adroit execution Microsoft has rarely shown on big acquisitions? ...
VMware improves over-the-air mobile security, management
VMware Inc. announced a broad series of enhancements to its mobility support platforms, including new features in its Workspace ONE enterprise mobility management platform that simplify remote management and upgrades and a partnership with Tanium Inc. that helps administrators more easily find and secure endpoint devices. The new VMware TrustPoint service combines Tanium’s endpoint security platform ...
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B
Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn Corp. in an all-cash deal valued at $26.2 billion. LinkedIn will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary, with CEO Jeff Weiner (above right) reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (above left). The deal has the unanimous support of both boards of directors, Microsoft said in a press release. It’s expected to ...
Survey finds growing confidence in public cloud security
The long-held perception that cloud computing is inherently less secure than on-premise computing is finally dissipating, but cybersecurity pros still have plenty of anxiety about the aspect of cloud security they can’t control: end-user behavior. A new survey of 2,200 security pros by Bitglass Inc., a provider of cloud access brokering services for use outside ...
What’s up with Bluemix? IBM cloud tech chief’s got the skinny
Angel Luis Diaz (@AngelLuisDiaz, right) is a busy man. In addition to running IBM’s cloud technology operations, he’s in charge of the company’s San Jose, CA lab and one of its leading evangelists for open-source software. He’s also in charge of development of Bluemix, the IBM platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that Technology Business Research recently ranked as ...